r/StallmanWasRight • u/OkTangelo101 • 20h ago

R. I. P. Aaron Swartz

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Aaron Swartz, the internet's legend.

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Stallman was Right

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Nobody listens to him. But he was right all along.

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"With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. " -- Richard M Stallman

Essential reading

The right to read
Free software, free society. PDF
The JavaScript Trap
Why open source misses the point of free software
Feudal Security
You Have No Control Over Security on the Feudal Internet
Lockdown: The coming war on general purpose computing
You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File-Sharing
‘No Company Is So Important Its Existence Justifies Setting Up a Police State’
Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues

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